May 28, 2018 – FINLAND’S TEAMS AWARDED IN EUROPE’S STATISTICAL COMPETITION Pakila9D in the B category (14-16 years) and the team in category A (16-18 years) with their creativity are delighted by the European Jury and have taken the lead in the only European competition.

April 06, 2018 – The European Statistical Competition is organized by Eurostat and many European national statistical offices to promote statistical literacy, and this year the national stage of the competition was held for the first time in Croatia. The possibility of participation at the European level was winners and two finalists from two categories (B category (14-16 years) and the team in category A (16-18 years) of national stage, and from Croatia “slew the sleeves” of 16 students divided into six teams, who in two-minute video tried to give their views on the place that statistics occupy in modern society. In the national stage of the competition in both categories, the teams from the Varaždin County, namely the AdAstra from the Varaždin First Gymnasium and TRICKYone from Elektro-engineering School Varaždin, took the lead. Particularly good results were achieved by the pupils of the Zagreb High School Luciana Vranjanina (Team Lucijanka1) and XV. the Grammar School (Madionicar Team) and the Rijeka School of My Mirković School of Economics (NUMBERONE1) and the Economics School of Velika Gorica (MiG), which took second and third place at the Statistics Olympics.

January 27, 2018 – The Croatian Bureau of Statistics informs that until 25 January 2018 there are 517 teams from 108 high schools applied for the Statistical Olympicsin Croatia with a total of 1429 registered high school students. However, this is not the only good news – at the EU level Croatia is convincingly the best on the number of registered teams per 100,000 inhabitants and has 10 times more than EU-average admissions (only Spain has a larger number of registered teams than Croatia).

European Statistics Day, October 20, 2017 has been celebrated in Croatia and Europe wide:

**On October 20, 2017, Croatian Statistical Association helps promoting the STATISTICAL OLYMPICS in Croatia, the EU project led by the Croatian Bureau of Statistics. Members of the CSA welcome STATISTICAL OLYMPICS project promotion in Zagreb, Osijek, Split, Rijeka, Varaždin. Photos.
**YSM22-2017: The 22nd Young Statisticians Meeting, 13 – 15 October 2017 in Zagreb, Croatia, was successfully held at the University of Zagreb, School of Medicine, School of Public Health „Andrija Stampar“, who co-organized this event together with CSA and Croatian Biometeric Society. Photo.
**At the The Federation of European National Statistical Societies (FENStats) website it is announced:

The Letter supporting Andreas Georgiou, October 2017FENStatS in occasion of the ESD wishes also to underline the importance of the independence of Official Statistics, expressing deep concern over the legal proceedings against Andreas Georgiou, the former president of the Hellenic Statistical Authority (ELSTAT), and other senior ELSTAT officials. A letter of concern signed by the Presidents of 23 European Statistical Societies has been sent to the Prime Minister of the Hellenic Republic Mr. Alexis Tsipras.

The Royal Statistical Society (RSS), with both the International Statistical Institute (ISI) and the American Statistical Association (ASA), is marking World Statistics Day on the 20th of October2015 with a statement urging that “global development must no longer be hampered by a lack of the most basic data about the social and economic circumstances in which people live”. Almost 50 organisations worldwide, and Croatian Statistical Association, too, have signed up to the statement calling for ‘a true data revolution’ to measure progress toward the new UN Sustainable Development goals.Now we have a page with the statement which you can link to: World_Statistics_Day_Statement